#! /bin/bash

#
# Unfortunately, macOS's devfs is based on the old FreeBSD
# one, not the current one, so there's no way to configure it
# to create BPF devices with particular owners or groups. BPF
# devices on macOS are also non-cloning, that is they can
# be created on demand at any time. This startup item will
# pre-create a number of BPF devices, then make them owned by
# the access_bpf group, with permissions rw-rw----, so that
# anybody in the access_bpf group can use programs that capture
# or send raw packets.
#
# Change this as appropriate for your site, e.g. to make
# it owned by a particular user without changing the permissions,
# so only that user and the super-user can capture or send raw
# packets, or give it the permissions rw-r-----, so that
# only the super-user can send raw packets but anybody in the
# admin group can capture packets.
#

# Pre-create BPF devices. Set to 0 to disable.
FORCE_CREATE_BPF_MAX=256

SYSCTL_MAX=$( sysctl -n debug.bpf_maxdevices )
if [ "$FORCE_CREATE_BPF_MAX" -gt "$SYSCTL_MAX" ] ; then
	FORCE_CREATE_BPF_MAX=$SYSCTL_MAX
fi
	
syslog -s -l notice "ChmodBPF: Forcing creation and setting permissions for /dev/bpf*"

CUR_DEV=0
while [ "$CUR_DEV" -lt "$FORCE_CREATE_BPF_MAX" ] ; do
	# Try to do the minimum necessary to trigger the next device.
	read -n 0 < /dev/bpf$CUR_DEV > /dev/null 2>&1
	CUR_DEV=$(( $CUR_DEV + 1 ))
done
	
chgrp access_bpf /dev/bpf*
chmod g+rw /dev/bpf*
